Chrome Views MS Office Documents

If you don’t own Microsoft Office or you just don’t want to launch a heavy application to read an MS doc someone has sent you then Chrome has you covered. Alan Henry from Lifehacker shares there is an extension in the Chrome Web Store called Chrome Office Viewer that’s in beta. This is even easier than reading in Google Docs because you don’t have to upload it first to see it.

You can read many docs with the built into the GMail viewers but that often has some limitations in viewing on some docs that are complex.